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clubs | bars | cabaret | life 18 #QXGayLondon GAY LONDON /0tMAYQXMAGAZINE.COM Suitable only for persons years of 18 and over. THE WAIT IS OVER COME OUT TO PLAY #SOHOSBIGGESTSECRET HAS ARRIVED... STEP INTO THE SHADOWS print + web iPad + iPhone Best Last week, gay football team Stonewall FC hit the Emirates stadium to play against foot the Arsenal FC Staff and the UK Parliamentary Football Team. Now, there’s forward a threesome nobody ever Photos by Chris Jepson expected to see… omophobia in football is fans. It’s a lifelong dream for any Arsenal fan, still a taboo that we have myself included, to play on the same pitch as yet to defeat. Players your idols. Week in, week out I go to watch are coming out after Arsenal, but to get changed in the changing they have retired with rooms and walk out the tunnel onto the pitch many people asking the was a feeling like no other. To be there and H question “why is there experience that with all your close friends will not an openly gay man be something that I will never forget. Luckily, in the Premier League?” Stonewall FC is the Chris Jepson was on hand to take pictures so I longest standing and world’s most successful can keep reminding myself!” openly gay football club - welcoming players of Jamie continues: “Our manager, physio, all sexual orientations. players and, of course, the committee who all Jamie Feldman, Treasurer and current player voluntarily dedicate time and effort to this club, for Stonewall FC, is one of many on a mission work so hard every year, so to give them all a to end this latest taboo in football. His latest reward like this was a great feeling. It’s been a We will only beat achievement in doing so was to contact Arsenal long time coming that Stonewall FC gains the FC and create the Arsenal For Everyone Cup. support of such a prestigious club like Arsenal. the battle of The Arsenal For Everyone Initiative covers We will only beat the battle of homophobia all forms of discrimination in football and in football if we get people talking about it. homophobia in attempts to eradicate the barriers to entry The link-up we have created with Arsenal FC football if we get that people believe exist. The Arsenal For will hopefully continue long into the future. )ZIV]SRI'YT[EWXLI½VWXEXXIQTXF]E To also have the added support of the UK people talking Premier league football club to openly show parliamentary team just shows you how much their support for a gay football team and people back the cause.” about it.” by special invitation, the UK Parliamentary The Speaker, Mr John Bercow, who played on Football Team was also invited. the day commented on both the fantastic work The day itself was a tremendous success that Arsenal FC were doing by hosting such a for all involved. Jamie Feldman told QX: “The competition and also his admiration for what excitement amongst the Stonewall FC players Stonewall FC stand for and are about. was evident from the day we announced it back Stonewall FC won the competition itself by in February. We had a limit of 17 players to take beating UKPMFC 3-2 and Arsenal FC Staff to the game and 27 offered themselves to take 2-0, with a special mention going to Marcos the day off work. Eric, our manager, ended up Fernandez, a lifelong Arsenal fan, for scoring a choosing a team that included all the Arsenal goal at the Emirates. For more information about Stonewall Football Club please go to www.stonewallfc.com or contact [email protected], Facebook/stonewallfc or @stonewallfc 2 THE THE WHO, WHAT, WHY,CARNIVALECA WHERE,RNIVAL WHENE OF GAY LONDON… INFORMERCaféCaféd deeP Paris,aris 3-434 CoventryCoventry Street,Street W1D 6BL6BL Sunday 8th June, 7pm-1am. Tickets: www.jj-events.co.uk/carnivale Table bookings: 07867 650225 ‘Carnivale’ promises an evening of sensual delights that will have you mesmerized, mystified and mortified… Held in a realm of unknown fantasy, Café de Paris, London’s iconic venue, is giving you a mélange of current music provided by DJs Kris di Angelis and Joshyouare, whilst there will be performances by the fantastic likes of Andromeda Circus, Marnie Scarlet, Angelica Kluft and many more. Hosted by Johanna Londinium, Daniel John Lynch, Mitchell Marion and John Murphy, with Master of Ceremonies Tristan Temple. Johanna Londinium HOME Home House, inaugural Home COMING Coming music event at FESTIVAL Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Sunday, 1st June 2014 on Sunday 1st June 2014 to from 5pm. benefit the Elton John AIDS Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Foundation, in partnership with London. English luxury mobile phone http://london.ejaf.org/events/ brand, Vertu. The ticket price event/home-coming-festival/ will also include a sumptuous Do you want to see Paloma mix of delicious food & drink Faith, Sophie Ellis-Bextor & including bespoke cocktails from Suggs perform in this summer Grey Goose RSVP, and many, Kris Di Angelis sun? You should attend the many other special acts! PETS BURN: Moving Images WITH by Cabaret Artists LETS! Sensorama OUTLET4PROPERTY Spectacular www.outlet4property.com Hackney Attic, Hackney Picturehouse, Living and renting in London 270 Mare Street, E8 1HE is hard enough let alone Sunday 1st June, doors 7pm, show should you come with a 7.30pm. £7/5 concs. best friend who happens Box Office: 0871 902 5734 to be a pet… The guys at www.burnlondon.com Outlet know that finding BURN, the platform for moving images by rented accommodation cabaret artists, is back at Hackney Attic for is very hard if you have the latest edition of its monthly residency, with pets, with most landlords not doyenne of lo-fi hi-glam Lorraine Bowen. Plus accepting them through the false belief that they on-screen video amazingness from Bourgeois will damage property. So to encourage landlords to take & Maurice, Christeene, Die Roten Punkte, on more guys and their best friends, Outlet have enlisted EastEnd Cabaret, Paul Kindersley, Scottee, the help of the Dogs’ Trust to go about creating wonderful Tomás Ford and Waxie Moon. And New CVs for pets with references, and policies in the tenancy York writer/musician Joseph Keckler will agreement to put at ease owners’ worries. Look out for be taking a sense spectacular into whole the launch poster on Old Compton Street and they will new dimensions of tongue-in-cheek opera donate £5 to the Dogs’ Trust every time anyone has their psychedelia, looking awesome in goth picture taken with Compton the Pug! drag. A rare London appearance! 4 PRIDE SPORTS DAY WALK FOR LIFE 2014 SPECIAL OFFERS RAINBOW RUN… 5k Sunday 8th June. £7 registration. Preston Park, Brighton www.walkforlife.co.uk Sunday 27th July, £18.50 registration. There is still www.brighton-pride.org time to register Disco divas are asked to get themselves ready for Brighton Pride’s for this year’s fun run and community sports day! Every omi and polone is expected event of the to chuck on some lyrcra and leg warmers and troll along to Preston Walk for Life Park to vada the talented totty and bona bods as they mince around at the above a series of camp courses. Dress for 70s wonder women action, and web address. every 1k grab some extra disco glamour… Registration closes on the The 10km walk 30th June. starts and ends at Bloomsbury Square Gadens, with a circular route that takes in the South Bank, Theatreland and The City. Funds raised go towards the Terrence Higgins Trust’s Hardship Fund, a project that offers small grants to people living with HIV in severe financial need. Anyone who raises more than £100 in sponsorship will also receive a free Walk For Life T-shirt. All adults will receive a medal at the finishing line which they can now use to gain a number of special offers in venues around Soho: Circa, Frith Street: 25% off drinks until 8.00pm East Street Restaurant, Rathbone Place: 50% off total food bill all night G-A-Y Bar, Old Compton Street: Drinks for £1.50 all night Green Carnation, Greek Street: 25% off drinks all night Ku Bar, Frith Street and Lisle Street: First drink free New Bloomsbury Set, Marchmont Street: Selected discounted drinks all night She Bar, Old Compton Street: First drink free The Queen’s Head, Acton Street: 10% off drinks all night DARRELL BERRY PHOTOGRAPHS 2007-2014 Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA Thursday 1st May – Saturday 31st May, 2014 www.darrell-berry.com Darrell Berry is an East London artist who has been shooting the East London queer scene for many years now, with photos published in Vogue Italia, A Magazine Curated by Riccardo Tisci, Out There and many others. Now you can enjoy all of his work over a seven year period collated together for the first time as part of Tupac Martir’s LOMW Festival at the renowned Rich Mix cinema and arts space in Shoreditch. 5 For full listings see Musts & Maybes, pages 48-52 or the What’s On section at www.qxmagazine.com For listings on the go, download the free QX GAY LONDON app at the iTunes store Manbar – Regulated Entertainment license reinstated Manbar has been granted back its entertainment license by those party poopers at Westminster Council and promise a return of all their DJs and entertainers. On Thursday, guest DJs on rotation rock ‘til 3am in Babylon. On Friday it’s Spunk, featuring dance tuneage from Amos, Rob C and Brent Nicholls, while Saturdays serve up Hombre, with Spanish DJ Gretta Gargola, laser shows and more.